Geospatial Data Contracts in the UK excluding London

Geographic Information (Geospatial Data)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Geospatial Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Geospatial Data over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 395 453
Rank change year-on-year +27 +58 -30
Contract jobs citing Geospatial Data 23 49 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.90% 1.42% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 33 35
10th Percentile £406 - £411
25th Percentile £425 £350 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £562 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% -2.26% -0.04%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £625 £736 £645
UK median daily rate £600 £565 £550
% change year-on-year +6.29% +2.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile - - £15.00
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £13.50 £22.49 £75.00
% change year-on-year -39.96% -70.02% +552.74%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Geospatial Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,569 3,453 5,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.68% 15.08% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,824 2,473 3,825
10th Percentile £313 £338 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £499
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.20% +10.89%
75th Percentile £576 £594 £586
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £548
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.52% +9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 108 130
10th Percentile £13.52 £21.73 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.15 £20.75
Median hourly rate £39.25 £55.70 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.53% +59.14% +43.44%
75th Percentile £60.50 £70.00 £61.61
90th Percentile £74.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% +30.20% +68.35%

Geospatial Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Geospatial Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Geospatial Data in the UK excluding London

Geospatial Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Geospatial Data in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Geospatial Data in the UK excluding London

Geospatial Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Geospatial Data in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Geospatial Data in the UK excluding London

Geospatial Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Geospatial Data in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Geospatial Data in the UK excluding London

Geospatial Data
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Geospatial Data within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +39 12 £545 -9.17% 12
Yorkshire +20 10 £490 -18.33% 6
South East +5 6 £525 -6.58% 8
South West +5 4 £525 -28.08% 3
North East - 2 £650 - 2
Midlands +17 1 £375 +7.14% 4
West Midlands +15 1 £375 +7.14% 2
Geospatial Data
UK

Geospatial Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (30.43%) ArcGIS
2 2 (8.70%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (13.04%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (8.70%) SAP CRM
2 2 (8.70%) SAP IS-U
2 2 (8.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) GCP
3 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.70%) SaaS
3 2 (8.70%) Stripe
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.35%) PaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (56.52%) GIS
2 5 (21.74%) Metadata
3 3 (13.04%) QGIS
3 3 (13.04%) Spatial Data
4 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
4 2 (8.70%) Power BI
5 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) ClearCase
1 3 (13.04%) ClearQuest
1 3 (13.04%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (8.70%) Postman
2 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Business Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) GIS Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) GIS Business Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) GIS Technician
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (8.70%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
4 2 (8.70%) GIS Manager
4 2 (8.70%) GIS Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Web Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Geospatial Developer
5 1 (4.35%) GIS Architect
5 1 (4.35%) GIS Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) .NET
2 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.70%) CSS
2 2 (8.70%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.04%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.04%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Agile
2 7 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (21.74%) Data Governance
3 5 (21.74%) Scrum
3 5 (21.74%) Waterfall
4 4 (17.39%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (17.39%) Data Management
4 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
4 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (13.04%) Cross-Platform Development
5 3 (13.04%) DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) ETL
5 3 (13.04%) Memory Management
5 3 (13.04%) OO
5 3 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
5 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.04%) User Experience
5 3 (13.04%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) C
1 3 (13.04%) C#
1 3 (13.04%) C++
1 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.35%) PMO
1 1 (4.35%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) HP ALM
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) ESRI
2 3 (13.04%) HP
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Sparx
3 2 (8.70%) Google
3 2 (8.70%) SAP
3 2 (8.70%) Xamarin